Owen Farrell is convinced England are on the road to becoming "a special team" after they retained the Calcutta Cup with a resounding 38-18 victory over Scotland.

And at the heart of it all, Farrell is showing all the signs of developing into a special player himself after he produced another commanding performance at fly-half. Farrell kicked 18 points and quietened those who deride him as one-dimensional by playing flat and with an attacking ambition which resulted in England scoring four tries.

"We think we are getting better and better every time we step out onto the pitch and hopefully we will keep doing that," Farrell said. "There's no doubt if we do that then we can become a special team. I don't think we are too bothered about expectation. What we are bothered about is what we create ourselves. We look inwards."

He added: "It was important to back up our win against New Zealand. We didn't want that to be a one off. We want that to be something that happens every week.

"But we are under no illusions, we know we can still get better."

England will need to improve when they head to Dublin next week for a crunch clash with Ireland, having conceded two soft tries to Scotland.

But they never looked in any real danger en route to their biggest Calcutta Cup victory in six years.

Chris Robshaw, Tom Wood, Joe Launchbury and Parling all ran powerfully and England looked to offload from the tackle to keep a high tempo.